'If You Can Keep It': Trump's Potential Plan For Undermining The Election

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

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It was early on Wednesday morning some four years ago, hours after the polls had closed when then President Donald Trump falsely claimed victory in the election of 2020.

Never mind the fact that millions of legitimate votes had yet to be counted. And a half-dozen states hadn't yet been called for either Trump or President Joe Biden.

POLITICO has spoken to dozens of people familiar or involved with the election process this year. And according to their reporting, a consensus has emerged.

Not only could Donald Trump make a second attempt to overturn an election if he loses. But the groundwork for doing so has already been laid.

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0:00.0	I'm Rachel Martin host of NPR's Wild Card podcast. I've spent my entire career learning what kinds of questions prompt the most honest answers.
0:08.2	What's the biggest sacrifice you've ever made? What's a belief you had to let go up? Oh! What's a goal you're glad you gave up on?
0:15.0	Now I'm putting those soul-searching questions to guests like Jenny Slate, Boen-Yang, and Chris Pine.
0:20.0	Follow Wild Card, wherever you get your podcast, only from NPR. Let's start the week with a simple question. Could this happen again?
0:38.0	This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country.
0:45.0	We were getting ready to win this election.
0:49.0	Frankly, we did win this election.
0:52.0	We did win this election. That was in the early hours of Wednesday morning, November 4th in 2020.
0:59.0	Hours after the pulse had closed and when President Donald Trump then the president falsely
1:04.5	claimed he had won. He did it knowing that millions of legitimate votes had yet to be
1:10.5	counted and a half dozen states hadn't yet been called for either Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
1:16.7	That set off a cascade of events that culminated in a pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill
1:21.3	on January 6th and an attempt to overturn the Democratic results of
1:25.1	the election for which today Donald Trump remains criminally charged with
1:30.0	four felony counts. Politico has spoken to dozens of people familiar or involved
1:35.5	with the election process this year and according to their reporting a
1:38.9	consensus has emerged not only could Donald Trump make a second attempt to overturn an election if he loses,
1:46.2	but the groundwork for doing that has already been laid. So that's where we'll start after this quick break. It's our weekly election series if you can keep it.
1:56.2	For this series we leave the horse race to the side and instead focus on the stakes of this election for people, for the country, and for our democracy.
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